Motion in Maps, Maps in Motion argues that the mapping of stories, movement, and change should not be understood as an innovation of contemporary cartography, but rather as an important aspect of human cartography with a longer history than might be assumed. The authors in this collection reflect upon the main characteristics and evolutions of story and motion mapping, from the figurative news and history maps that were mass-produced in early modern Europe, through the nineteenth- and twentieth-century flow maps that appeared in various atlases, up to the digital and interactive motion and personalized maps that are created today. Rather than presenting a clear and homogeneous history from the past up until the present, this book offers a toolbox for understanding and interpreting the complex interplays and links between narrative, motion, and maps.

The urbanisation process has a huge impact on both the urban and rural landscape. Not only does it thoroughly modify the urban area, it also has a tremendous impact on the rural hinterland. We propose to take medieval Brussels (Duchy of Brabant) as an example to illustrate this complex issue. According to our different fields of research, a multidisciplinary point of view will be adopted, combining urban history (the study of human urban society), rural history (agricultural developments and rural socioeconomic change), historical geography (interaction between medieval people and their spatial environment) and natural sciences (through the archaeopedological and phytolith study of Dark Earth). Firstly, we briefly discuss the essential concepts 'medieval city' and 'medieval urban landscape' and try to apply them to the case of medieval Brussels. Secondly, we address some essential characteristics of landscape transformation, by tackling the major stages of the emergence and development of medieval Brussels and its changing impact on the regional landscape. We argue that the urbanisation process, generally allocated solely to the urban area, is key to understanding landscape transformation of the medieval territory of Brussels.

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Bram Vannieuwenhuyze & Stefan Meijering, The court of Nassau. The construction of an aristocratic residence in late medieval Brussels In recent years, historians have devoted much attention to the integration of rich nobles and state officials in late medieval urban society. However, the concrete spatial practices linked to this socio-cultural integration have received less scholarly attention. In this paper, we use the abundant archives relating to the late medieval court of Nassau in Brussels (14th-16th century) to reconstruct the genesis and expansion of such an urban noble residence and its integration within the surrounding neighbourhood. The complex that we know from 16th-and 17th century iconography and cartography seems to be the result of several successive construction campaigns. It is, however, clear that the construction of this residence was not the result of a simple and short architectural intervention. We stress the complex and long term interaction between personal aspirations and collective interests, between family history and town history and between local building history and the urbanization of the surrounding quarter and entire town.